There is a flat screen television in the lobby of the school office. When it is on it plays photo slideshows of what certain grades or students have been doing that is of interest to parents such as myself, when we’re there early, killing time. Such was the case this afternoon. I was early, and…
Technically, this isn’t a tutorial so much as a walk through of the latest construction the kids are building together. They play off the server hosted on Adam’s computer which Keira then logs into via the LAN and it is surprising how productive they can be in a short period of time. I have more to say…
I come from an extended family that is naturally curious and genuinely interested about the world. Case in point, my mother has been giving to my grandfather the same present at Christmas for years: a subscription to both Australian Geographic and National Geographic – while treating herself to the same, for good measure. If you…
These holidays have gone by quickly; so fast in fact that I’m quite sorry (this once!) that school goes back today. You see, between my being at work and Adam taking the kids away last week, plus Easter, I didn’t really feel I’d seen them very much, let alone spend any quality time in their…
For several years a suitcase was resident in our garage. It sat in a corner behind boxes of books and dusty tools, alongside rags and assorted broken appliances, as inconspicuous as any other banished object that normally occupies such a place. Except this is not true; I know it and, out there, I think you…
Have you been eating chocolate today? Have you a child who is both listless and irritable from the excitement leading up to this morning, and also strung out from excessive sugar levels? Or perhaps you might have another child who has caught on to the reprimanding phrases of adults who, in reaction to the moaning…
Our supermarket recently held one of those seasonal drawing competitions that we parents so gladly take an entry for because we say to ourselves, ‘Great, this will buy us about thirty minutes of quiet time while they’re busy working away for the chance to win a prize.’ {Raising all sorts of questions about doing a…
I’ve often talked about my food porn food magazine addiction here on the blog, but what I’ve not mentioned – and is almost as relevant, if not more so, to the fact – is that I have a general magazine weakness that requires harsh measures to keep in check. So you can imagine I was…
There was a two hour break after the close of yesterday’s sessions at the Digital Parents Conference before the dinner and drinks were scheduled to begin. I went upstairs to change in the bedroom of some girlfriends and I happened to mention something about the day that particularly struck me: the emphasis, as it ever…
